Artist and activist Blithe Riley came to our university, and she had a few interesting things to say. Her lecture delved into the artist's world and point of view concerning the Occupy movements, primarily dealing with the administration of museums and the unfair balance of monetary investment put forth by the government.
The problems she proposed with museums were that they too often sold out to the highest bidder and the common folk are kept at an arm's length to specific fine arts. This of course goes against the Occupy agenda, yet at first the people of the movement were disinterested. She had many challenges getting the Occupy Museums movement started, but persevered and succeeded in making demonstrations, such as a showing that spooked some adminstrators into retreating into the building over a non violent request to accept a cardboard image of a house.
I believe that Blithe Riley is helping do the world a solid by standing up for what she believes in, but I'm not entirely convinced that what she and the movement does will help them achieve their goal: fair involvement for all people that does not involve any cost. Money makes the world go round, and if artifacts are worth a lot of money, then they should be protected. Getting people who are knowledgable enough to handle items like that are going to require proper training, and of course those same items will need protection as well. This all can't be done for free. And even if we could, we'd still have people like this messing up all of our nice things: http://www.artfagcity.com/2012/01/05/woman-pees-on-about-or-around-clyfford-still-painting/
But, good luck to Ms Riley; she is standing up for the art world in her own way and I can fully support that.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Assignment 2: RNC photo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gopconvention/7753967786/in/photostream
I found this picture in the RNC photostream. I choose it because it is an actual art piece submitted for the convention. Aside from the craft of the piece, the artist does a good job of incorporating much of what the Republican part views as icons to their political agenda, including national images of American views, such as the eagle, the flag, etc. It ties all of these together under their own banner of the elephant. It won the competition the RNC held, and was made by Erin Fesler, a high schooler. Kinda reminds me that politics affects children that young, something that never concerned me before.
I found this picture in the RNC photostream. I choose it because it is an actual art piece submitted for the convention. Aside from the craft of the piece, the artist does a good job of incorporating much of what the Republican part views as icons to their political agenda, including national images of American views, such as the eagle, the flag, etc. It ties all of these together under their own banner of the elephant. It won the competition the RNC held, and was made by Erin Fesler, a high schooler. Kinda reminds me that politics affects children that young, something that never concerned me before.
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